Katarina Botsky

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Katarina Botsky , born as Kat (h) arina Botzke (born August 4, 1880 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † December 31, 1945 there , officially set date of death), was a German writer.

Life

Katarina Botsky's life path is largely unknown. She was born as Kat (h) arina or Käte Botzke in Königsberg. Older anthologies of East Prussian poetry mention August 4, 1879 as the date of their birth. New research has shown that she wasn't born until a year later, in 1880.

There is no reliable information about the circumstances of death. Botsky was declared dead on April 15, 1964 by decision of the Neuss District Court . December 31, 1945 was officially set at midnight as the time of death. It can be assumed that the author died while the city of Königsberg was being taken by Soviet troops. Botsky lived in the Königsberg district of Haberberg , Alter Garten 52, until she died .

Most important of all appear today Botsky's novellas, which were published between 1911 and 1936 in the well-known critical-satirical magazine Simplicissimus . They identify the author as a forgotten but important representative of literary modernism. Your texts are mostly about people who have lost faith and all hope. She illustrates and translates into literary terms what Friedrich Nietzsche had discussed before her with the “death of God” as a philosopher. A source of inspiration set for Botsky the 1895 published novel Jew the Obscure ( Judah the Obscure or heart in turmoil , published in 1895, dt. 1901) by Thomas Hardy . This novel also introduced the Nebentitel The tragedy unmatched goals , what the lyrics of K Botsky very aptly characterized. Ludwig Goldstein wrote about them:

"A completely new appearance, she is our first female power and original genius."

- Ludwig Goldstein

Works

  • Before the bars of life . Seemann, Berlin a. a. 1905.
  • The drinker. Novel. Langen, Munich 1911.
  • Summer and autumn. Two ages . Novel. Langen, Munich 1913.
  • East Prussia's fire time. War images . Langen's war books; Bdch. 10. Langen, Munich 1915.
  • The dream. Novel . Langen, Munich 1919 and previously as a serial in the Berliner Tageblatt
  • The forbidden paradise . Kürschner's Treasure of Books No. 1238. Hillger; Berlin, Leipzig 1919.
  • Sheep on dark pastures . Novellas. Langen, Munich 1924.
  • In the darkness. Novellas . Selected and edited with an afterword by Martin A. Völker. Elsinor Verlag , Coesfeld 2012.
  • Dawn of the crow. Novellas . Selected and edited with an afterword by Martin A. Völker. Elsinor Verlag, Coesfeld 2014.

See also

literature

  • Martin A. Völker : Fear, horror, glimmer of corpses - writing in memory of the dead God (afterword). In: In the darkness. Novellas . Selected and edited with an afterword by Martin A. Völker. Elsinor Verlag, Coesfeld 2012. pp. 90-105.
  • Martin A. Völker: Seeing the Erlkönig - Katarina Botsky and her aestheticization of fear (epilogue). In: Dawn of the Crow. Novellas . Selected and edited with an afterword by Martin A. Völker. Elsinor Verlag, Coesfeld 2014. pp. 126–150.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Botsky, Katarina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Botzke, Kat (h) arina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1945
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)